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The author of The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children, E Nesbit, married an impossible man. Edith fell for Hubert Bland, left home and was married in a register office. He gave a false address and didn’t tell his mother, for he had already had a son by her paid companion, Maggie.

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine tries its hand at an ancient craft

There’s a Constable in the living room, the Turner prize in Eastbourne and a sensual statuette at the Wallace – all in your weekly dispatch

Fear and hatred are not fertile grounds for creativity. Akhtar’s question was placed in the context of today’s India, underlining the tragic barrenness produced by regimentation and repression

Curators have selected 25 items from the father of psychoanalysis vast collection in his former Hampstead home to explore what they meant to Freud…

Weird and wonderful habits from 200 years of globetrotting, including travelling with your own cow and a rather disgusting spa resort habit

Why go to the Louvre just to see the Mona Lisa when there are other great artworks here at the museum? More on Times Travel